Welcome to the Linux Alternative Project (formerly the Linux Equivalent Project). The goal is to provide an informational and available website for all linux users. The website is currently in beta form. I will be periodically updating the database with Windows software and the Linux equivalents and alternatives.

Windows Software Linux Equivalent/Alternative 3D Home Architect Sweet Home 3D ( http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/index.html ) 3D Studio Max K-3D ( http://www.k-3d.org/ ) Wings 3D ( http://www.wings3d.com/ ) Art of Illusion ( http://www.artofillusion.org/ ) Blender ( http://www.blender.org/ ) ACDSee KuickShow ( http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net/ ) ShowImg ( http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/ ) Gwenview ( http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/ ) GQview ( http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ ) Eye of GNOME ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/ ) Adobe Acrobat Reader okular ( http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/ ) Xpdf ( http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ ) Evince ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/ ) ePDFView ( http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/ ) KPDF ( http://kpdf.kde.org/ ) Adobe Audition Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) Adobe Illustrator Skencil ( http://www.skencil.org/ ) Inkscape ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ) Karbon14 ( http://www.koffice.org/karbon/ ) Xara Xtreme for Linux ( http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ ) Adobe PageMaker Scribus ( http://www.scribus.net/ ) Adobe PhotoAlbum F-Spot ( http://f-spot.org/Main_Page ) KPhotoAlbum ( http://www.kphotoalbum.org/ ) digiKam ( http://www.digikam.org/ ) Adobe Photoshop CinePaint ( http://www.cinepaint.org/ ) Krita ( http://www.koffice.org/krita/ ) GIMP ( http://www.gimp.org/ ) Adobe Premier PiTiVi ( http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page ) LiVES ( http://lives.sourceforge.net/ ) Kino ( http://www.kinodv.org/ ) Cinelerra ( http://cvs.cinelerra.org/ ) kdenlive ( http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/ ) Jahshaka ( http://www.jahshaka.org/ ) Ant Movie Catalog Moviefly ( https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lmc/ ) AOL Instant Messenger Kopete ( http://kopete.kde.org/ ) (AIM) Pidgin ( http://pidgin.im ) APC PowerChute Network UPS Tools ( http://www.networkupstools.org/ ) Apcupsd ( http://www.apcupsd.com/ ) PowerD ( http://power.sourceforge.net/ ) CDex Sound Juicer ( http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound- juicer ) Rubyripper ( http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper ) ripperX ( http://ripperx.sourceforge.net/ ) Grip ( http://nostatic.org/grip/ ) KAudioCreator ( http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator ) Collectorz aviManager ( http://avimanager.sourceforge.net/ ) GCstar ( http://www.gcstar.org/ ) Tellico ( http://periapsis.org/tellico/ ) Alexandria ( http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/ ) Griffith ( http://griffith.vasconunes.net/ ) vMovieDB ( http://vmoviedb.sourceforge.net/ ) Katalog ( http://salvaste.altervista.org/ ) Dreamweaver Quanta Plus ( http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/ ) Geany ( http://geany.uvena.de ) Nvu ( http://www.nvu.com/index.php ) Screem ( http://www.screem.org/ ) KompoZer ( http://www.kompozer.net/ ) Bluefish ( http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html ) DVDShrink k9copy ( http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/ ) OGMRip ( http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/ ) Thoggen ( http://thoggen.net/ ) xdvdshrink ( http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/ ) DVD Rip-O-Matic ( http://dvdripomatic.sourceforge.net ) qVamps ( http://vamps.sourceforge.net/ ) dvd::rip ( http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ ) AcidRip ( http://untrepid.com/acidrip/ ) Everest HardInfo ( http://hardinfo.berlios.de/web/HomePage ) Finale Lilypond ( http://www.lilypond.org ) Denemo ( http://denemo.sourceforge.net/index.html ) Rosegarden ( http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ ) NoteEdit ( http://noteedit.berlios.de/ ) Brahms ( http://brahms.sourceforge.net/ ) Flash F4L ( http://f4l.sourceforge.net/ ) Fontographer FontForge ( http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ ) Forte Agent Pan ( http://pan.rebelbase.com/ ) FruityLoops LMMS ( http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ ) Hydrogen ( http://www.hydrogen-music.org/ ) Google Desktop Search Google Desktop ( http://desktop.google.com/linux/index.html ) Beagle ( http://beagle-project.org/ ) Guitar Pro TuxGuitar ( http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/home.html ) DGuitar ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/dguitar/ ) kguitar ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/kguitar/ ) iTunes Banshee ( http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page ) aTunes ( http://www.atunes.org/ ) Quod Libet ( http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet ) SongBird ( http://www.songbirdnest.com ) Exaile ( http://www.exaile.org/ ) Amarok ( http://amarok.kde.org/ ) Listen ( http://listengnome.free.fr/ ) Rhythmbox ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/ ) gtkpod ( http://www.gtkpod.org/ ) Legacy Family Tree GRAMPS ( http://gramps-project.org/ ) LimeWire FrostWire ( http://www.frostwire.com/ ) Meal Master krecipe ( http://krecipes.sourceforge.net/ ) Gourmet Recipe Manager ( http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/ ) Microsoft Access Kexi ( http://www.koffice.org/kexi/ ) knoda ( http://www.knoda.org ) GNOME-DB ( http://www.gnome-db.org/ ) Microsoft Excel KSpread ( http://www.koffice.org/kspread/ ) Open Calc ( http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html ) Gnumeric ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/ ) Microsoft Frontpage Quanta Plus ( http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/ ) Nvu ( http://www.nvu.com/index.php ) KompoZer ( http://www.kompozer.net/ ) Bluefish ( http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html ) Microsoft HyperTerminal minicom ( http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ ) GtkTerm ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkterm/ ) Microsoft Internet Explorer Epiphany ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/ ) Opera ( http://www.opera.com/download/ ) Firefox ( http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ ) Konqueror ( http://www.konqueror.org/ ) Microsoft Media Center XBMC Media Center ( http://xbmc.org/ ) Microsoft Money KMyMoney ( http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ ) GNUcash ( http://www.gnucash.org/ ) Gnofin ( http://gnofin.sourceforge.net/ ) Grisbi ( http://www.grisbi.org/ ) Microsoft Office GNOME Office ( http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/ ) KOffice ( http://www.koffice.org/ ) OpenOffice ( http://www.openoffice.org/ ) Microsoft OneNote BasKet ( http://basket.kde.org/ ) Microsoft Outlook (Express) Thunderbird ( http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/ ) Evolution ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/ ) Microsoft Powerpoint Open Office Impress ( http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html ) KPresenter ( http://www.koffice.org/kpresenter/ ) Microsoft Project KPlato ( http://www.koffice.org/kplato/ ) OpenProj ( http://openproj.org/openproj ) GanttProject ( http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/ ) Planner ( http://live.gnome.org/Planner ) TaskJuggler ( http://www.taskjuggler.org/ ) Microsoft Visio Dia ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ ) Kivio ( http://www.koffice.org/kivio/ ) Microsoft Windows Media Freevo ( http://freevo.sourceforge.net/ ) Center Elisa Media Center ( http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/ ) MythTV ( http://www.mythtv.org ) LinuxMCE ( http://www.linuxmce.com/ ) Microsoft Word Open Office Writer ( http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html ) AbiWord ( http://www.abisource.com/ ) Kword ( http://www.koffice.org/kword/ ) mIRC Konversation ( http://konversation.kde.org/ ) KVIrc ( http://www.kvirc.net/ ) BitchX ( http://www.bitchx.org/ ) Xchat ( http://www.xchat.org/ ) ChatZilla! ( http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/ ) irssi ( http://www.irssi.org/ ) Pidgin ( http://pidgin.im ) Mp3tag Kid3 ( http://kid3.sourceforge.net/ ) Pinkytagger ( http://pinkytagger.sourceforge.net/ ) EasyTAG ( http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ ) Cowbell ( http://more-cowbell.org/ ) Audio Tag Tool ( http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/ ) MSN messenger Mercury Messenger ( http://www.mercury.to/ ) Kopete ( http://kopete.kde.org/ ) aMSN ( http://amsn-project.net/ ) Pidgin ( http://pidgin.im ) Mudbox SharpConstruct ( http://sharp3d.sourceforge.net ) Nero Burning Rom X-CD-Roast ( http://www.xcdroast.org/ ) Brasero ( http://perso.orange.fr/bonfire/index.htm ) GnomeBaker ( http://gnomebaker.sourceforge.net/ ) Graveman! ( http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/ ) K3b ( http://www.k3b.org/ ) NetMeeting Ekiga ( http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ ) NetStumbler Kismet ( http://www.kismetwireless.net/ ) SWScanner ( http://www.swscanner.org/ ) NewzCrawler RSSOwl ( http://www.rssowl.org/ ) Liferea ( http://liferea.sourceforge.net/ ) BasKet ( http://basket.kde.org/ ) Akregator ( http://akregator.kde.org/ ) Blam ( http://www.cmartin.tk/blam.html ) Straw ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/ ) Notepad leafpad ( http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ ) NEdit ( http://www.nedit.org/ ) jEdit ( http://www.jedit.org/ ) Kate ( http://kate-editor.org/ ) gedit ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/ ) Scribes ( http://scribes.sourceforge.net/ ) tpad ( http://tclpad.sourceforge.net/ ) OrangeCD Catalog GWhere ( http://www.gwhere.org ) Origin SciGraphica ( http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/ ) Partition Magic Partimage ( http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page ) GParted ( http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ ) QtParted ( http://qtparted.sourceforge.net ) Picasa F-Spot ( http://f-spot.org/Main_Page ) KPhotoAlbum ( http://www.kphotoalbum.org/ ) digiKam ( http://www.digikam.org/ ) Pro Tools Ardour ( http://www.ardour.org ) Quicken KMyMoney ( http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/ ) GNUcash ( http://www.gnucash.org/ ) Gnofin ( http://gnofin.sourceforge.net/ ) Grisbi ( http://www.grisbi.org/ ) SoulSeek Nicotine ( http://nicotine.thegraveyard.org/ ) Nicotine-Plus ( http://nicotine-plus.sourceforge.net/ ) SoundForge ReZound ( http://rezound.sourceforge.net/ ) TexnicCenter

Total Commander GNOME Commander ( http://www.nongnu.org/gcmd/ ) xfe ( http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ ) Tux Commander ( http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/ ) Midnight Commander ( http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ ) Krusader ( http://krusader.sourceforge.net/ ) Traktor DJ Mixxx ( http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/ ) terminatorX ( http://www.terminatorx.org/ ) Videora thin liquid film ( http://thinliquidfilm.org/ ) Winamp Audacious ( http://audacious-media-player.org/Main_Page ) Amarok ( http://amarok.kde.org/ ) XMMS ( http://www.xmms.org/ ) Windows Media Player KPlayer ( http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/ ) VideoLAN ( http://www.videolan.org/ ) xine ( http://xinehq.de/ ) mplayer ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html ) Windows Movie Maker PiTiVi ( http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page ) LiVES ( http://lives.sourceforge.net/ ) Open Movie Editor ( http://openmovieeditor.sourceforge.net/HomePage ) Avidemux ( http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ ) Cinelerra ( http://cvs.cinelerra.org/ ) kdenlive ( http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/ ) WinIso ISO Master ( http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/ ) KIso ( http://kiso.sourceforge.net/ ) WinMerge KDiff3 ( http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ ) Meld ( http://meld.sourceforge.net/ ) xxdiff ( http://furius.ca/xxdiff/ ) Kile ( http://kile.sourceforge.net/ ) WinTV XdTV ( http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/ ) tvtime ( http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/ ) WS_FTP gFTP ( http://gftp.seul.org/ ) FireFTP ( http://fireftp.mozdev.org/ ) Zbrush SharpConstruct ( http://sharp3d.sourceforge.net ) ZoneAlarm Guarddog ( http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/ ) Firestarter ( http://www.fs-security.com/ )